In this paper, we study the Weissman-Taylor rectangular element for the Reissner-Mindlin plate [12] model and provide a convergence analysis for the transverse displacement and the rotation. We show that the element is stable and locking free, thereby improve the results of [8] and [9].

We consider the BDDC preconditioner for Reissner-Mindlin plate problems, discretized with the MITC element, introduced and analyzed in [11]. In that contribution the authors prove that the condition number of the ensuing linear system is independent of the plate thickness and scalable with respect to the mesh. We here prove, in addition, that the BDDC preconditioner of [11] is also quasi-optima...

On arbitrary regular quadrilaterals, a new finite element method for the Reissner-Mindlin plate is proposed, where both transverse displacement and rotation are approximated by isoparametric bilinear elements, with local bubbles enriching rotation, and a local reduction operator is applied to the shear energy term. This new method gives optimal error bounds, uniform in the thickness of the plat...

We develop a family of locking-free elements for the Reissner– Mindlin plate using Discontinuous Galerkin techniques, one for each odd degree, and prove optimal error estimates. A second family uses conforming elements for the rotations and nonconforming elements for the transverse displacement, generalizing the element of Arnold and Falk to higher degree.

Free vibration of a magnetoelectroelastic plate resting on a Pasternak foundation is investigated based on Mindlin theory. The in-plane electric and magnetic fields can be ignored for plates. According to the Maxwell equation and magnetoelectric boundary condition, the variation of electric and magnetic potentials along the thickness direction of the plate is determined. Using Hamilton’s princi...

In this paper we derive a strain gradient plate model from the three-dimensional equations of strain gradient linearized elasticity. The deduction is based on the asymptotic analysis with respect of a small real parameter being the thickness of the elastic body we consider. The body is constituted by a second gradient isotropic linearly elastic material. The obtained model is recognized as a st...

In this paper, a fundamental solution for the Mindlin plate theory with damping is derived in the Laplace transform domain first time. The applications of this fundamental solution are demonstrated by the method of fundamental solution (MFS). All variables in the time domain can be obtained by the Durbin’s Laplace transform inversion method. Numerical examples demonstrate the accuracy of the me...

Stabilized finite element formulation for the Reissner-Mindlin plate model is considered. Physical interpretation for the stabilization procedure for low order elements is established. Explicit interpolation functions for linear and bilinear stabilized MITC elements are derived. Some numerical examples including buckling and frequency analyses are presented. Copyright c © 2000 John Wiley & Sons...

Efficient finite element (FE) analyses of Reissner-Mindlin (RM) plate bending problems require a combination of high-order polynomial trial functions (p-extension) and locally refined meshes, or, in short, an hp-extension of the FE method. In the optimal case, exponential rates in the convergence of the error in energy norm can be obtained by such a discretization. This contribution discusses s...